Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Date/time formatting

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
>     Eric> I don't know what I prefer yet. I've been put in front of a
>     Eric> fact with not prior notice (the date/time library now
>     Eric> depends on regexp and math) and I'm still trying to
>     Eric> understand why this was done and whether this was really
>     Eric> needed.
> 
> I thought it was the natural place for date and time formatting.
> But now you've pointed out some disadvantages, I think a separate
> formatting library might be better.

Not necessarily. What bothers me is that it looks like using
a power drill to kill a fly. Why does it need to use regexp
and math? Why does it need auxiliary classes like that?
As I said I don't really have time to review the code now,
but I guess I will have to do that anyway if I want to fully
understand ;-(

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